According to Roman According to the reports, the Latin Guinness Book of name of the World Records, the Czech lands prehistoric settlement Boiohaemum of Dolní Věstonice (Bohemia) is in Southern derived from the Moravia is the name of the Celtic oldest town in the tribe that settled Formerly being a part of the world. It dates back The word "Czech" is on the territory of Independent Republic of to 27,000 BC, the Ice an adjective and today´s Czech Czechoslovakia that was formed Age therefore should not Republic in 1918, Czech Republic split be used as the itself from Czechoslovakia abbreviated name into a separate country in of the country 1993. The Prague Castle is the largest castle area in the world. Its three courtyards Oskar Schindler and a number of with whom you may magnificent buildings "Czech Siberia" is be familiar from The first person to categorise cover over 7 hectares the nickname of an Spielberg's film blood into four types (A, B, (18 acres) area of hilly Schindler's List was AB, O) was the Czech countryside only a few born in a neurologist Jan Janský in 1906 kilometers south of the Moravian town capital city of Prague. called Svitavy (now The area is as cold as it in Eastern Bohemia) The synagogue in Plzeň would be located 200 in 1908 (Pilsen) is the second largest meters higher than it synagogue in Europe and the is, because of the third largest synagogue in the frequency of world temperature inversions in winter The word "robot" The Czechs are the #1 comes from the The first woman ever to beer drinking nation Czech language in the world, (robota = "work", become the United States Secretary of State consuming the most beer "hard work" in some per capita in the world dialects (in 1997), Madeleine Albright, was born in (160 liters or 43 gallons). The name of the US Prague They have been currency, the dollar, is drinking beer since at derived from the Czech least 900 A.D. coin known as the tolar There are more than 70 (thaler), minted from breweries in the Czech 1519 in Jáchymov, West Republic Bohemia In 1985, the Czech Ivana Trump is engineer Pavel Pavel Czech and was born solved the mystery of in Gottwaldov (now the moai statues on Zlín), Czech The Czech names for Easter Island and The first person who the months are Republic explained how they were wanted to create a different from the transported to their current union of European names in other Indo- locations rulers (similar to European languages. today’s EU) was the From each of the names, Bohemian King George you can decipher the of Podebrady (1420- weather characteristics 1471) of it. For example, in January (“leden”), there is often ice (“led”); in The bottom-fermentation May (“květen”) flowers method used in beer are in blossom (“květ”) Sigmund Freud production, invented by the and August (“srpen”) is The sugar cube was born and spent brewers of Plzeň (Pilsen) in named after the reaping- was invented in the the first years of his 1842, is now applied across the hook (“srp”) used for Czech town Dačice life in what is now world reaping grains in 1843 the Czech Republic.